First game, 9:20 AM Saturday (Twnety minutes late - I got stuck in traffic in Waterbury, CT for 20 minutes - a construction site winding down at 7:00 AM, one of the few times when there is usually hardly any traffic there!
My friend, GM Mark T., who lives in New Hampshire. His figures are 40mm scale.
The Bridge model has a story. Back in ? early middle school, Mark's class had an assignment to do "Shadow box" type dioramas. Not content with that, he did a 2x 4 foot model of Concord Bridge North, the site of a major skirmish during the British raid on Lexington and Concord. He had some help from his Dad, and the model hung out for decades. Last year, Mark Rehabbed it and built up new terrain for the scenario, which sees a British force trying to hold back a Patriot advance upon their position. A party of British Grenadiers is seen in the far ground, trying to march to the rescue! Also in the far ground is Chris Parker.
The patriots try to storm the bridge with their best troops, while many of the others provide fire support from the river banks.
"Some talk of Alexander, and some of Hercules..."
The Patriots have taken the bridge, dispersing most of the British Defenders... but the British Grenadiers arrive, with vengeance in mind!
In the end, it is too little, too late. The (skirmish level) rules used were Light Bobs by Chris Parker (2nd edition in evolution, with help from Mark T). The game uses a playing card deck for activations in some interesting ways, but D6's for combat "Ones are Magical". I enjoyed the game... and the rules!
Another Saturday game setting up at HAVOC.
Super looking game, the table looks lovely.
ReplyDeleteMark did a fine job with this set up, I agree!
DeleteBeen running this game since Huzzah! in 2025, due to it being the 250th anniversary of this skirmish. Ran it at Mayhem this year, will again at Huzzah! (it's full at the moment), and will run it twice at Historicon on Friday at 8am and 1pm. Terrain is going to be enhanced, the rules being used and worked on have been in revision and playtesting for the last 18 months, and a 2nd edition is being planned, perhaps for end of 2026 or sometime in 2027. I might run thisa scenario again at Fall-In!, although plans are in the work for other scenarios too. The rules author, Chris Parker, is currently running scenarios for Princeton, Cowpens, and a hypothetical scenario called Trenton: The Germans are Awake.
DeleteFloods, traffic. Good to see you got there safely in the end Peter and some great pictures of the first game.
ReplyDeleteOne of those times! One year I Drove to HAVOC in a minor snowstorm, and another year I drove back after an ice storm; those were far worse!
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ReplyDelete40mm easy for old eyes :-)
ReplyDeleteIndeed! Are 40's the new 25's? :-)
Delete54 mm events have become popular at Historicon in recent years...
I did consider 40 mm for AWI, but in the end decided sanity (space, cost, need for even more new terrain) indicated otherwise.
I'm not sure 40mm will ever be as popular as 25/28mm, but they sure look great on the table, easy to paint, and I use 28mm sized buildings which do the job nicely. For AWI ... Things From the Basement has a great line of AWI era buildings available in 15mm and 25/28mm.
DeleteA beautiful looking game Peter....just a shame about the result! 😀 40mm figures do look great but I agree with your reasoning for not going there.
ReplyDeleteThe appeal of the results depends upon the observer, of course, but the beauty of the table we can agree upon for sure!! :-)
DeleteLovely looking table for sure and sounds like fun ( apart from the cinstruction traffic!)
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Thanks, Iain! It was (aside from the traffic in the early AM!).
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